BOOK REVIEW: TIZIANA BANINI, OANA-RAMONA ILOVAN (2021). REPRESENTING PLACE AND TERRITORIAL IDENTITIES IN EUROPE. DISCOURSES, IMAGES AND PRACTICES

Abstract

Interdisciplinary bridging place-identity discourses with territorial images and social practices, the current volume tackles a critical approach focusing on Europe and its internal cultural borders as well as the key role of capitalizing on territorial identity. Although territorial and identity-related issues are frequent topics for the entire European space, territorial and urban planning, regional-continental identity, increasing spatial cohesion, developing competitiveness, and standard representation of internal migrations within the discursive methodology of this current volume, the dynamics of socioterritorial belonging is valued as an identity argument and criterion of a joint spatial system seen as a challenge rather than an intersection of geographic topics. This challenge emerges from the main research objective of the editors, namely, to generate innovative, cognitive and metacognitive territorial architectures (‘spatial consciousness’) up to a real-life collective memory (‘sense of place’) equivalent of the place identity (re-territorial modeling and re-bordering processes at different local and regional levels).